10.23.2012

Dana Loesch is pulling a Todd Akin 2.0 by defending the crass and sexist "rape is something intended from God to happen" comment from Indiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock (R), who defeated incumbent Richard Lugar in the Republican primary earlier this year. Remember that the IN-Sen race occurs in the state that is home to the other affiliate that broadcasts The Dana Show (WIBC), so this means Loesch will defend him to the hilt.

Her tweets defending Mourdock and slamming the pro-choice community/Liberals/Democrats:

NEW ALBANY, Indiana — At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:

I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.

Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock became the latest Republican to wander into eyebrow-raising territory when it came to the discussion of rape and abortion during a Senate debate Tuesday night.

Defending his stance that abortion should be illegal even in the case of rape, Mourdock explained that pregnancy resulting from nonconsensual sex is the will of God.
“I’ve struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is that gift from God,” Mourdock said. “And even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”

In the Indiana Senate race, Mourdock’s statement could serve to reinforce the Democratic contention that he’s an extremist. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the Democratic nominee, also opposes abortion rights but makes an exception for rape and incest as well as the mother’s health.

After the debate, Donnelly said Mourdock’s words on stage were disturbing.
“The God I believe in and the God I know most Hoosiers believe in, does not intend for rape to happen—ever,” Donnelly said in a written statement. “What Mr. Mourdock said is shocking, and it is stunning that he would be so disrespectful to survivors of rape.”

To piss off Loesch some more, please donate to Joe Donnelly (D)'s Senate campaign to defeat right-wing kook Richard Mourdock and the GOP War On Women.